National Priority Areas - The Economic Efficiency Law - Legislative Amendments for Implementing the Economic Plan for 2009-2010

Theme:Economic Rights

Status:Active

Year:2009

Description:

This law extends government permission to use sweeping discretion to classify towns, villages and areas as “National Priority Areas” (NPAs) and to allocate enormous state resources without criteria.

The law contradicts a landmark Israeli Supreme Court decision from 2006 in which the court ruled a government decision from 1998 which classified 553 Jewish towns and only 4 small Arab villages as NPAs with “A” status in the field of education unconstitutional.